It starts from a very young age...Christians are indoctrinated with a story that suggests that a mere mortal defied both science and reason to ‘resurrect’ from death, to walk on earth again before ascending into the heavens. Moreover, Christians are also expected to believe that a person known as Jesus Christ, will one day return to earth, perhaps even via a cloud, to create a paradise on earth with his followers. This enduring myth taught to children and believed by billions of adults all around the world is about 2000 years old.

When grown adults are permitted and even encouraged to subscribe to a fallacious myth about a 'historical' superman, it implies that anything on earth is possible. When you combine the accepted myth with current 'New Age' thinking; ‘that everyone is a winner’; worthy of god-like recognition, it is a recipe for disaster. The New Age Christian, is ‘naturally’ entitled to ask the following question, if this Jesus Christ actually existed and is returning, why can't it be me!

Many derivatives of the Messiah Complex exist...including the equally mythical story of the two witnesses, or even angel messengers, but always and importantly the individual is a direct messenger sent from God himself. The logical proposition is; if Elijah, Moses, Abraham, were all picked out by God to do his handy work on earth...there is no reason why the individual can't argue that they to have been selected and in turn have mythical powers just like their heroes did. In fact, choosing anyone less than Jesus Christ, provides the deluded individual with a self-effacing backstop; "Hey, it's not like I'm saying I'm Jesus".

Historically Christians are all supplicating individuals who accept their sin, redemption and duly issued ticket to paradise. However this type of thinking is very hard to reconcile in the modern age, where individuals and their rights are continuously being elevated to deistic levels. The combination of these two elements is set to deliver an exponential increase in psychological pathology in the Christian community; sadly these incidents will be primarily treated within the church, and even more distressing, some Churches will encourage this behaviour in the interest of both drama, and the financial benefits of offering a prophetic ministry.

As a child of a Pentecostal ministry I have personally witnessed the destructive impact of the Messiah Complex on a young family, as an adult, I myself fell prey to its delusional claws, taking my own family into a potentially dangerous situation. The Messiah Complex will continue to exist for as long as the Christian community and the wider world accept the Christian Myth; a myth that permits their members to blur the line between fable and reality.

The legacy of Christ's story is so entrenched in Western Society that it is now known as 'truth'. It is this conviction of ‘truth’ that holds humanity back from realising its true potential. But more importantly, the continual existence of the Christian Superman Myth ensures a disturbing invitation to vulnerable men and women; that are required to make only one small logical step into madness; if Jesus et al are most certainly coming back…why can’t it be?

What is the Christian Myth?

There are many aspects and variations of the Christian Myth, but two of the most important tenets of Christian belief are one, Jesus Christ died and was brought back to life by the will of his heavenly Father and two, Jesus Christ is set to return some time in the future, incredibly coming down from the sky to establish, with his believers, a place known simply as paradise. These two aspects of the Christian myth are the cornerstone of their faith, if you believe in Christianity, this is what you are expected to subscribe to.

Many Christians today refuse to subscribe to many other myths of Christianity, including the ones that are found in the Old Testament; for example, that the world was created in six days or that the world is merely five or six thousand years old. These free thinking Christians, perhaps in the light of carbon dating, geology, biology and geography have chosen to divorce their Christian beliefs from the stories of Genesis, but a Christian will never, can never, refuse to believe in the resurrection and return of Jesus Christ.

Non-Believing ‘Christians’

What about the ‘Christians’ that don’t believe in the resurrection and the return of Jesus Christ? First and foremost, their beliefs are rejected by the entire Christian community; they are generally labeled as frauds or even worse New-Age Christians. Quite simply they are not Christians, without the resurrection and the return of Jesus Christ the Christian myth dies, it merely becomes another philosophy, with plenty of good and bad points, some nice stories and enduring parables, all boxed up with a pleasant self-sacrificing figurehead to aspire to.

Is It Necessary to Extinguish the Christian Myth?

Extinguishing the Christian Myth is totally unnecessary and entirely voluntary, each person whether they know it or not, is a sovereign being and therefore entitled to believe whatever they wish. Notwithstanding this, if the world was able to successfully extinguish the Christian myth, the world would not necessarily be a better place but it would certainly be a more mature and evolved place.

Why Should We Extinguish the Christian Myth?

The Christian myth is an embarrassing legacy of a time when superstition and the Church ruled the world, when equality and education was of little importance, when science was scorned upon, and when poverty and malnutrition was viewed as an admirable disposition. When superstition and the power of the Church started to decline during The Enlightenment, people in the world started to look beyond their local Priest for spiritual guidance, and started to scrutinize the adopted myths that society had long held on to.

The Christian myth, in today’s liberating light filled day, a day where science continues to explain so many great mysteries, where children in so many countries enjoy the benefits of a free education, where so many women now have freedom of choice, where so many men and women of the world enjoy so many every day freedoms; men and women are now entitled to choose between reality and the delusion of the Christian myth. A man and a woman can now confidently state, without fear of prosecution or prejudice that a human is not capable of resurrection. Similarly, that a man is not capable of flying down from the sky or heavens to impart some type of heavenly justice.

Christians will tell you that Jesus Christ is no ordinary man, he is God’s son and therefore capable of a supernatural resurrection and an even more supernatural heavenly return. And this is the great and popular delusion of Christianity. The aforementioned proposal is laughable and should be confined to children’s fairy tale books or even Hollywood studios, but the shear number of people that believe in this myth, apparently two billion people at the moment, ensures its unremitting existence.

Adults Acting Like Chidlren

When an independent human being makes their way from childhood to adulthood, we receive invitations to relinquish long-held presumptions about the world, some of the most regrettable ones are fairy tales. Giving up on fantasies such as Santa Claus and the tooth fairy can be a very disappointing thud back to earth for a growing child, giving up innocent childish ideals can also be very difficult for the maturing young adult and learning personal responsibility can be a lifelong adventure for so many adults, yet each adult has a deep-down desire to grow and evolve as a human being. However for so many adults, this desire is not strong enough to reject the Christian myth of Jesus Christ.

What Do We Have To Gain?

By rejecting the age old Christian Myth, we will in so many ways be saying yes to humanity, humanity’s today and humanity’s future. How can I be so sure of this? Because the Christian Myth puts everything on hold, including life and living. When man and woman are merely participating in a test for some future paradise, when the world is viewed as a mere testing ground to separate Christ’s supplicants from unbelievers, the world gets put on hold. Our inherent need for progress is replaced with cautionary fear, the joy and pleasure of life is replaced with sin and guilt, life and the world become a secondary concern and we tend to treat it as such.

It’s not easy to reject something that is so popular, so simple and seemingly rewarding, but as a human being you will benefit in so many ways. I’m not saying that there is nothing on the other side of death, all I am saying is that there is no evidence of it to warrant worrying about it, and that no story about a man who has come back to life and is planning on returning convinces me otherwise. This is just one of the invitations that you are destined to receive as an adult human being, I hope that you treat it with the same lucid and discerning attitude that you used when you decided to stop believing in Santa Claus.

 

In a new age world where we are told that we are all beautiful creatures, desirable to all and sundry...I'm afraid it is simply not the case...mere mammals are we and the game of attract and attracted is what I like to call the flower and the bee.

The flower and the bee is the supposedly complicated dance that we male and female humans play in order to socialize together in couples. But quite simply and whether you want to admit it or not, one person in your couple is a flower and the other is a bee.

The upper and lower hand flower and bee relationship has nothing to do with education, intelligence or wisdom, it is all based on physical attraction, one partner is a beautiful flower in the relationship and the other is the bee attracted to the flower.

Only when we let go of all the niceties and political corrections of this world can we truly see that it is the game of the flower and the bee that keeps this world re-generating, generation after generation.

And it is not a simple case that the female is the flower and the male is the bee, everyone that has had more than a few relationships can tell you what it is like to be the flower and what its like to be the bee.

To understand who the flower and bee of all our relationships are, you need to go all the way back to your first meeting with your partner, who was chasing; desperate to see the other person and who was watching and waiting.

When you establish who was the original flower and the original bee, your relationship should return to the original attraction of that original meeting; the position that each of you took at that meeting can change in your minds but never in reality.

What happens when a bee starts acting like a flower and a flower starts acting like a bee? Quite simply, the balance of nature is thrown out, and neither person will be truly happy until it is restored to its rightful order.

When a bee starts acting like the flower, the flower understandably gets very upset, it is not his or her ego, it is simply the personality of their petals, in this world with this particular partner she or he is the attractor; it is not his or her fault, just nature.

A bee starts acting like a flower for many reasons, including higher intelligence, better work opportunities, even a higher level of self esteem but he or she will always be a bee in his or her current relationship and until he or she starts remembering that and behaving as a bee, he or she and the relationship will never work properly.

As you can imagine it is hard for the bee, to look in the mirror one day and face the reality that he or she was never the flower in their relationship. That against all the new age ideas of equality and balance, their position is one of attraction not attractive.

Don't be confused, this little bee may be the flower in hundreds of relationships that he or she may have, but in their current one they are the bee. And for their current relationship to succeed they must start to act like one or buzz off somewhere else hoping to be a flower.

In this world, there are many confused little bees out there that return from the beauty salon thinking they are beautiful little flowers, and they are to many, but to their current partner they will always be a bee, and I'm afraid at this point in time in their life, that's all that matters.

Flowers on the other hand are never confused; they are merely waiting, waiting to be treated properly, as a flower. A flower will put up with a confused little bee for a very long time, but they will not be truly happy until the bee starts to act like a bee again.  

So what makes a happy bee and a happy flower? It is very simple, the bee must continue to assure the flower that his or her partner is the flower in their relationship; he or she can do this with either words or actions. And as with any great truth in this world, the words or actions should come surprisingly easy for the bee.

This is one truth that will not save the world, yet it keeps the world turning over, it will not bring world peace, but it will bring peace to your world, it will not fix all the relationships in the world, but it may mend a very important fundamental imbalance in yours.

Signed

A little bee.

If you think anything has really changed in the world since the dawn of man, then you just haven't been paying attention. As soon as man started to ask questions about his origins and about the afterlife I would suggest that there was always another man ready to charge him a fee for some answers.

History reveals to us a grand delusion, a great deceit that has befallen man in all the ages. All through history man has been fooled into seeking salvation not from within but from grand institutions. These institutions have fleeced the uninitiated with the promise of a gift, a gift that every man has already in his possession.

The key to this grand delusion is the price paid for man's salvation; each temple in the world whether it be the Egyptian Priests or the Catholic Church have each participated in the great sale of salvation. The sale of salvation is the longest, most successful, one of the most brutal and deceitful ‘empire endorsed’ business that the world may ever see.

One of the earliest origins of the sale can be found in the Egyptian mythological scroll known as the Book of the Dead. The Book of the Dead is considered by many to be man's first attempt to prosper from man's ageless questions regarding the afterlife. The scroll was not free for all and in its day, much like the Judaist scroll the Torah; it was something that was not to be seen or experienced by commoners.

The Book of the Dead could be purchased by wealthy citizenry, the priests of the temple were the marketers of this great scam; each purchaser of the scroll would be advised which scroll would best suit his needs in the afterlife. The scroll was to be paid in full, up front for a fee not less than half a year's wage.

More than providing detailed instructions on how the purchaser was to traverse his way through the series of trials and tribulations of the afterlife, it provided the man with peace of mind, not only for himself but also for his wife whom was included in the scroll at no extra cost.

The parallels in history are obvious but there is something much more enlightening is this whole affair that can be revealed. The all inclusive package included one more item that was essential for any person contemplating the afterlife. It was a scarab that was to be placed upon the man's heart just before he was finally rested.

The heart is very significant in Egyptian mythology, when a man was buried, all of his internal organs were removed from the body; even the brain was surgical removed through the man's nose. The organs were placed in decorated containers and placed beside the man's sarcophagus, yet the man’s heart remained safely in situ.

The heart was important because during a significant tribulation of the afterlife, a man was required to have his heart weighed against the weight of a feather. The Egyptian Priests plainly informed their customers that there was no way a mere mortal could pass this vital stage; trickery alone was the only way man would pass the test.

Because it was impossible to enter the afterlife with a perfect heart free of guilt and sin, the scarab was placed on the heart to fool the god Osiris (sometimes Anubis). And this is where original sin comes from. And this is where man gets its biggest clue to not only understanding what religion is about but also to understand where true freedom lies.

Many thousands of years have passed since this great crime was perpetrated against man, the only difference now is that even the commoner is invited to participate in this great deceit; an unfortunate legacy of the misunderstood message of Jesus.

Christians are told that Jesus died on a cross not for crimes committed against the law but for them. They're told at least once a year that Jesus was sentenced, stripped, scourged and nailed to a cross for each and every one them. Their temples are filled with pictures of the event and their sign, a cross of which many of them wear upon their heart, is a further symbol of it.

The Catholic Church, we're told with participants well in excess of 1 billion, is fascinated with both sin and guilt. The Church requires its supplicants, in order to ensure their place in heaven, to confess of their sins each week to a temple priest. When coupled with a weekly ritual called the mass, the Church considers itself to be providing a full spiritual service to its practitioners.

And this service of course comes at a price; each member is expected to make a donation each week to the church in what they call a tithe. Of course the tithe is no different to the cost involved in producing a Book of the Dead for an Egyptian citizen. Religion is a business; where more followers quite simply equates to more money for the corporation that is the church.

If you're impressed with stock exchange listed companies that turn good profits year in, year out; that do well in good times and bad, is able to bet on either side of a war; a company that has a spiritual mandate to drum up business for all eternity, then the Church is the business for you. But I'm afraid they're not selling any shares today, or even tomorrow or the next day; to you they're only selling salvation.

But the clue has been given and the message needs to go straight to the heart, because it is the heart that should rule your world. When man places his heavy thoughts on a scale against his heart, he will indeed elevate his heart to its rightful position and in turn will start to know his divine and spiritual purpose. Now, whether you realise it or not, your great search for your truth has begun.